Ready Steady Go! - New Years Eve Specials

RSG was broadcast from August 1963 until December 1966. Produced by Associated-Rediffusion the show was eventually networked nationally. The show was recorded at small studios in Rediffusion's headquarters in Kingsway, London.

There were three New Year Specials altogether and my drum kit appears to have taken part in them all. You would expect that if The Dave Clark Five were on a show DC would expect to be seen with his Red Sparkle Rogers drum kit as it was something of a trademark for him. As the RSG! studio was compact, and there were a number of bands on, it looks like the drummers had to share the same kit.

Working backwards from New Years Eve 1965 guests on the show were as follows.

The photo above was taken in reheasal which is why Keith Moon has not covered over the front of the bass drum. Notice also that the letters "G" and "O" in the background have yet to be filled in as they appeared on the show, and "Happy New Year" is missing from the background.

The Searchers

The Rolling Stones

The following photos would all appear to be from rehearsals as will be shown later. Various of the Unique features of the kit can be seen in the photos.

I wrote to him asking if he had any more photos from that show. The guy is a gem, he just sent me the three photos below, no charge – top bloke! (I did make the point that I wasn’t after photographic art, I was just interested in the drum kit and these photos are each quirky in their own way, but great for my purposes.)